Chapter 75: Stealing

Leilah POV

As dinner started which Perseus told us to start without him, I am in charged of filling you readers up on what's happening on our end. Our plans to eliminate the distraught kraken is approaching closer and so he told me to call his parents and tell them our immediate plans.

Unlike in your world where you have those phone devices, we use crystals, but one crystal can only call one other crystal who in this case in in the hands of your contact, one crystal can only be linked with one other, so if you want to contact different people, both sides have to have one specific contact crystal linked up.

He of course have 2 which are linked to both the crystals that each of his parents have, but we usually have to just call one. I called them and they immediately picked up.

"Is this working? Can you hear us?" Nyra asked

"It's glowing, I'm sure they can." Rylee replied "Yes, we can hear you. Perseus is away at the moment, but he told me to give you an update. We're going to eliminate the kraken soon and his fame will skyrocket, so he wants you all to be careful."

"Even an arrogant guy can be such a momma's boy, huh." Ruka joked "Who would have thought, it's kinda funny that they managed to found a way to his cold heart and make him submissive."

"That's called being a good parent." Nyra replied proudly "Anyway, it's good that you're updating us, did you hear the heroes recently stopped an army of skeletons from invading a village, supposedly those skeletons were controlled by a mage who was using forbidden magic to increase their mana capacity."

Oh, that does sound cool, anyway, to control a skeleton, you have to shroud the corpse in magic and control them manually, you'll need a large mana capacity in order to raise and control an army while also having a large mental strength to control each one manually.

I heard a rumor like that, basically the person was taking revenge on the village of the killer of their family after justice was not served due to a corrupt judge, the heroes probably killed them already or do their 'righteous' thing and imprisoned the girl will letting the village go free.

Anyway, I reassured my future in laws and then ended the call, the kraken that has nothing else to live for, that's quite sad, but it's not like we have a choice, we're capitalizing on whatever we can to raise Perseus level and as long as he participate a decent amount and we let him deal the finishing blow, he'll immediately go up to the level of a 4 star.

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Lilith POV

"What made you different?"

I chose on not to pursue the topic of him saying unrestrained violence being the most powerful thing since it's very subjective and choose to pursue on learning about him as a person.

"It's what I used to get in here without anyone noticing." he answered "Remember? I specialize in lies and deception, it's easy to fool people with illusions and confuse their senses without them knowing."

"You are too comfortable around demons." I even let out my tail for him to see and he's not even a bit put off

"I lived around them all my life, Lilith. You feel helpless and inferior, and you would try to rip them apart in order to make yourself look more adequate and protect your pride, but nothing will help. As for me...it's hard to say, there was many times that I considered ending myself, so you got Leilah to thank since she's responsible for saving my life."

He has this sad look while speaking in a tone of fondness ad tenderness that I would never expect from a person like him.

"What is Leilah to you?"

"A book." he snickered at the thought

"A book?"

"A book that I never want to end since I wish to thoroughly enjoy every page of it...don't ever let her or my parents hear that, they'll never let me hear the end of it."

"I see...you must have suffered a lot before you met her then."

"Heh, I'm already fortunate to be born a cheerful guy." he shrugged "Talking with someone helps, but it's only does when you're out of your helpless situation. i guess you haven't talked to your siblings in a while, you don't even know what you'll do when you meet them again, do you?"

This guy knows too much about me, it must have been because he was in my position before, emotionally hurt and someone must have helped him through it somehow.

"You know you resent them for what you went through, but it's been so long that if you meet them again, you won't even know that you still feel the same rage, but you know it's not entirely quelled either, you're not even sure that taking your anger out on them will make you feel better...you're nothing, but a confused mess." he continued

"Let's continue my therapy some other day." I suggested

"You've clearly never been in one so if you do, just approach me, I'll try my best since I'm only just a victim of another situation, but unlike you, I know my anger is still there, I'm not a good person at all."

"Not a good person, you?"

"Yep, like you, I felt despair, but unlike you, my will wasn't strong enough to get me by without help, so I hope we don't have to be enemies in the future. If you need my help whether as a goddess or a general, I will try my best."

Leilah was everything I couldn't despite being weaker than me...but...as a so called demon...can I steal my sister's man? Let's test him a little bit, i teleported him onto the bed and used one of my hand to grip one of his wrist and pin it down above his head and lean my face close.

"Are you sure that you're not here to just seduce me with empathy?"

"Aggressive, but I'm only 15, even as a demon, you know that there are certain laws, right?" he wasn't fazed which I do feel a slight bit offended

"Our laws allow it if you're 16, you're only 1 year off and you're mentally older...you don't seem to resist much."

He leaned into my ear and blew into my ear which tickled me.

"It's because I know you're not serious." he whispered "I thought about going only for 3, but...making my limit 4 doesn't seem that bad either, are you sure you want to be up for it?"